King Creag, guardian and protector of the fae of Gamilia, issued a challenge. Find a teleporter somewhere on the medieval role play isle of Gamilia, that takes you somewhere, take pictures of yourself with a non-fae, and be the first to deliver them to the High King.
Lady Emy and I got right on it. We spent hours one day searching the entire island including the village, forest, beach and graveyard, the market (elevated landing point), the heavens (without setting foot in it), even a building platform! We flew, we walked. We did not crawl under tables only because it's not in our AO's! We went over the same territory the other had already covered. We conferred in the wonderful cavern. The cavern is truly difficult to explore. There are several levels leading both up and down with nooks and crannies galore. It is easy to get turned around. Especially because as you walk, you can fall through the sculptie rock to lower levels (sometimes all the way to the ground). Getting back to where you think you were takes time and makes it even easier to miss something. If you fly, it is easy to go too fast and get gored with spikes. Emy took out her spell book to heal me after I had been injured the third time and was afraid to move for fear I'd hit another trap. Then she made me rest. Thank goodness she keeps an eye on my stats!!
We had a good time, we learned even more about each other's strengths, and began building team dynamics. We were successful in the end and discovered the teleporter, which led us to a secret garden. The next hurdle was finding a man online at the same time who was available for pictures. She managed to take several during the day and I finished up that evening after work.
We were the first to complete the task set before us! After review by the appropriate parties, House Zephirus became the premier fae house of the kingdom of Gamilia!! WhoOOot!!!
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sooo love this picture of my good friend Emy and I sitting in a Pillow Talk apple tree in the medieval kingdom of Gamilia. One of my personal requirements for happiness in Gamilia is trees and other stuff I can sit on!
As a child, I climbed trees (my favorite was a 100 yr old Chinese Elm), roofs and fences. The tall stacks of hay bales in our barn turned into castles and fortresses for my brother and I to scale or defend! I still climb fences back home, and ladders at work!
This one of me swinging on the branch is so very reminiscent of my childhood. Dad made our swing set. I loved that it was larger than the ones you could buy and my favorite part was the trapez!! This is so me!
The High King of Gamilia put on a wonderful display of fireworks on July Fourth!! I suppose it could be considered an extension of the Opening Day Ceremonies held mid-week. His majesty seemed quite pleased with how well it went. Approximately one quarter of the population viewed the display.
I am continually amazed at the variety available in SL. I will confess I went expecting to see modern firework devices, but even the equipment had a wonderful old time feeling!
I have given up looking through folders on my hard drive for the pictures I took. I will undoubtedly stumble across them someday in whatever folder had my prior attention that night.
Not sure what to say, but since Creag linked me on his blog, I thought a new post would be in order - lol.
Before I ever logged on the first time I decided I wanted to see myself having fun in Second Life. So I'm set up as a regular person - what you see is what you get. Cas is me - height, build, soft red hair, personality.
There is so much of SL I haven't tried. So much fun out there just waiting. hmmmm......should I try Hogwarts? Dragonriders of Pern? a Battlestar or the Star Fleet? Be an elf or a fairy?
And just then Alicia posted about becoming a fae in response to Creag's post on becoming a fae king in Gamilia. She said "And I think all of you who have free time should come be fae, too." And the timing was right.
I put in my application at for the Kingdom of Gamilia, and with Creag's guidance, I was granted citizenship. Now how do you role play a fae when you aren't a silly person?
I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism It's a medieval re-creation group. So I am familiar with courts, tournaments and display of pomp. But I'm mainly involved with creating arts, displaying them, judging them, giving classes. Rather than role players, I would consider most of us medievally courteous.
I think a fae would hover for court, rather than stand. Flit around and land on the tops of odd things - hay bales, castle turrets - not chimneys (too dirty!!), tease the cattle, sit in the middle of flowers to day dream of handsome fae to share their lives with.
So, we'll see how I do. If anyone happens to read this, and wants to say anything - please do :)
